Wednesday, February 7th 2007
Games May Improve Vision
According to research by the University of Rochester, video games with a lot of action may actually help to improve performance. During the project, researchers found that those who played video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved their ability to identify letters in a cluster by 20%, a test similar to ones used in standard ophthalmology clinics. Those playing Tetris saw no improvement in vision, but those playing Unreal Tournament could see which way the "T" in crowd of other letter and symbols was pointing much easier than before.
Source:
DailyTech
31 Comments on Games May Improve Vision
That would tell me that six months of having a laptop probably isn't the reason for losing perfect vision.
It is well known that eyestrain (from actually NOT using your eyes much = starting at a screen for hours on end) makes your eyes worse and worse... including the "red eye" effect of reading very late at night.
So you eyesight will actually get worse... BUT due to the practice of spotting objects and movement or speed reading text... you get better at spotting things.